C.O.
REGISTERED No.
54226/47
39
DRAFT AND RECORD Eonial office, 34 66.
LETTER SENT
Church House,
Great Smith Street,
S. W. 1.
20th OctoBOTE 1947.
DRAFT
MR. Layle
MR.
MR.
Conies of
ENCLOSURES
(62) and caclosure (63) and (65).
FURTHER ACTION
My dear MacDougall,
Vide (1) 54348/48
an
Closer liaison between Hong Kong and His Majesty's Embassy and Consulate staff in China
With reference to my letter of the 1st September, Tenclose for your information copies of further correspondence with the Foreign Office.
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I think this will now enable you to complete discussions with Nanking on the detailed arrangements for the secondment of an officer of the Hong Kong Cadet Service to the Embassy. When these have been settled, we shall no doubt get an official despatch putting the proposal and the detailed arrangements for formal approval, and seeking a decision on any such details as cannot be settled locally, e.g. the Problem of quarters, referred to in the last paragraph
of Scott's letter to me of the 13th October.
3.
It would, I think, be useful if the despatch also dealt with the effect of the adoption of this proposal for the secondment of a Hong Kong officer for service in the Embassy on the question whether Heathcote-Smith's successor should be a Foreign Service officer or a Hong Kong officer, which, as you know, has been reserved for further consideration.
եւ Minnit, who has been in to see us on two or three occasions, and who, of course, is aware of the proposal that he should be selected for this job,
D.
MACDOUGALL, ESQ., C.M.G.
To
raised
[4556B) Wt. 26930/440 50m. 9/45 C.N.Ld. 748